Sunday, October 28, 2012

If Barack Obama is reelected, will he face impeachment over Benghazi —
a yet more unpleasant and far more wrenching result than to lose an
election?

It could happen — and in my estimation should happen — the way
revelations are playing out over the bloody terror attack that took four
American lives and has led to weeks of prevarication and obfuscation.

The scandal thus far has at least tarnished and quite possibly
implicated everyone from the CIA director, to the secretaries of State
and Defense, to the UN ambassador and, of course, the president himself —
with no end in sight, because Obama, normally loath to expose himself
and even less so in an election season, refuses to answer questions on
the subject.

It’s not the crime, but the cover-up, we learned in an earlier
impeachment, only in this case the crime may be just as bad or worse.

If you think the insanity is over just because the President will most likely win and keep a Dem Senate and GOP House status quo, you have anything thing coming.

The race for the White House continues to be too close to call in
Ohio, according to a new Enquirer/Ohio News Organization Poll that shows
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney each with 49 percent support
from likely voters.

That’s a slip for the president, who took 51 percent of likely voters in the newspaper group’s September poll.

Romney’s
support grew among males, among high school and college graduates and
among respondents in every age category except 18 to 29.

The two
candidates also tied in scaring voters – 29 percent of poll respondents
said they’d be scared if Obama won, and the same amount said they’d be
scared if Romney won. Half said they were very enthusiastic about
voting, 21 percent said they were not so enthusiastic or not
enthusiastic at all.

Your mileage may vary on the poll's accuracy, but they do get the next part right strategically:

“In the final days before the election, both campaigns will focus on
turning out their bases, appealing to independents and attracting the
few undecided voters that remain,” said Eric Rademacher, co-director of
the University of Cincinnati’s Institute for Policy Research, which
conducted the poll. “Absent any more twists and turns, a remarkable
presidential campaign may end with the campaign that executes the best ‘ground game’ narrowly delivering Ohio for the next president of the
United States.”

Levine, 33, even goes so far as to stand up for Aguilera, 31, who has been the object of criticism for her weight. He says the naysayers should "grow up."

"The one thing about the culture right now, celebrity culture particularly, is people feel like they can just say nasty things about other people whether it's Christina or whether it's me," he says. "She gets a lot and it pisses me off. Of course I have her back and of course I defend her."

Good for her. First, for showing what it means to own yourself, and secondly for refusing to apologize. She has gained weight, but not so much that she's a health risk or unsafe. She doesn't owe the world a perfect ass forever. Why would anyone feel she has to explain this phase of her life? I say she's worked out her entire life, if she wants to laze a bit and enjoy carbs with her new motherhood, so be it.

Matt Stoller erupts into feigned relevance again like the political emoprog herpes he is as he takes to Salon to convince people to abdicate voting. He officially veers off into unintentional comedy in paragraph three with a chart on corporate profits:

So
why oppose Obama? Simply, it is the shape of the society Obama is
crafting that I oppose, and I intend to hold him responsible, such as I
can, for his actions in creating it. Many Democrats are disappointed in
Obama. Some feel he’s a good president with a bad Congress. Some feel
he’s a good man, trying to do the right thing, but not bold enough.
Others think it’s just the system, that anyone would do what he did. I
will get to each of these sentiments, and pragmatic questions around the
election, but I think it’s important to be grounded in policy outcomes.
Not, what did Obama try to do, in his heart of hearts? But what kind of
America has he actually delivered? And the chart below answers the
question. This chart reflects the progressive case against Obama.

Yeah, Obama has in fact crafted an entire society in just 45 months. Let's give a pass to the Republican's effect on the Body Politic, causing a heart attack and an collapsed lung of an economy and two broken legs. We get all that fixed, and Dr. Obama is a terrible President because we're doing 5Ks on the slow end and not running full marathons.

But then Stoller veers into Privileged White Guy territory towards the bottom of his screed:

Now, it would not be fair to address this matter purely on economic
grounds, and ignore women’s rights. In that debate with Ellsberg,
advocate Emily Hauser insistently made the case that choice will be safe
under Obama, and ended under Romney, that this is the only issue that
matters to women, and that anyone who doesn’t agree is, as she put it,
delusional. Falguni Sheth argued that this is a typical perspective from
a privileged white woman, who ignores much of the impact that Barack
Obama’s policies have on women, and specifically women of color. And
even on the issue of choice, you could make a good case, as she
does, that there’s less of a difference between Obama and Romney than meets the eye.

Yeah, you have the white guy going after a personal friend of mine because supporting the black president is actually damaging to women of color.

Falguni Sheth's argument, by the way, is complete tripe. It assumes that there's no stated functional difference between Romney and Obama because Congress has Republicans in it, and since Obama has yet to declare himself dictator for life (which is hypocrisy because DROOOOONES) then there's no difference. Which means Sheth is as full of emoprog crap as Stoller is. Surprise!

It really is tiring to see any/every emorprog "case against Obama" boil down to the paragraph above, but it still apparently must be pointed out because they keep doing it constantly. But for Stoller to say what he did is such massive assumption of privilege that it borders on the tragic. It's based on the assumption (there's that word again Matt, pay attention here) that persons of color AND women are too stupid to see how "awful" Obama is for them, when the opposite is actually true.

Stoller's cool because the "marginal" difference on policies that actually affect him where he is allows him the privilege of it not mattering to him regardless of whom is elected. For a great many of the rest of us, we live on that margin.We don't have the luxury of "Oh well, it doesn't matter." We don't have the luxury of the 40 year progressive plan for a new society. We need to get things fixed now, and I'm going with the guy fixing them as opposed to the guy going back to the same things we did in 2001-2008.

Yes, the macro-level stuff is horrible. Inequality? Unacceptable. Climate change? Being ignored. it's awful. But I know for a fact Romney won't make any of that better, and Obama will at least try to correct the micro-level stuff so that the macro-level stuff can be fixed later.

Those are my two choices. And I live in Kentucky where my vote for President is utterly, utterly meaningless. Doing it anyway out of patriotism and to honor those before me who fought and died for my right to vote.

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